Jeremiah 31

¹“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.” ²Yahweh says, “The people who survive the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.” ³Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, ⁷For Yahweh says, ¹⁵Yahweh says: ¹⁶Yahweh says: ²³Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: “Yet again they will use this speech in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I reverse their captivity: ‘Yahweh bless you, habitation of righteousness, mountain of holiness.’ ²⁴Judah and all its cities will dwell therein together, the farmers, and those who go about with flocks. ²⁵For I have satiated the weary soul, and I have replenished every sorrowful soul.” ²⁶On this I awakened, and saw; and my sleep was sweet to me. ²⁷“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and with the seed of animal. ²⁸It will happen that, like as I have watched over them to pluck up and to break down and to overthrow and to destroy and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant,” says Yahweh. ²⁹“In those days they will say no more, ³⁸“Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that the city will be built to Yahweh from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner. ³⁹The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn toward Goah. ⁴⁰The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to Yahweh. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”